(Updated 03/02/2013) As my gear loving friends know I’ve been vehemently opposed to Multifuel stoves since I heard first their helicopter-landing din and realised they were little more than an unpredictable Molotov Cocktail waiting to remove a few fingers. However, I’ve always been nervous around anything flammable under pressure, gas included so it seemed only fair that I […]
I had arrived down after the advance group who had been put off by some really bad weather that had passed through earlier on. With the possibility of some climbing the other guys were happy to find a more sheltered spot and set themselves up for the next day. A quick call to Typo-on established […]
It was Spud that first suggested the Lecale way to me on one of our Annalong valley camps & with so many days in mountains it was time for a multi day road & trek adventure.last weekends coastal trek was over a section of the Lecale way. The Lecale way extends over 40 miles of […]
Well, myself and summit86 decided to head off up Commedagh last night for our first summit camp, ever. The forecast was for a clear, cold, night and rain all day Sunday so with appropriate clothing and gear we set off about midday. It seemed that the top of Commedagh was the only peak in Northern […]
We’ll all go up Donard …it will be fun……. they said. This was a wake up call “Run Fatboy run “was all I could hear between the sound of my lungs trying to get air. I had always loved the freedom of the hills now I had an excuse ….. mid life crisis will get […]
Errigals Efforts Woke up Saturday….Errigal Day . Planned this for a couple of weeks . Had a sore head Business awards dinner ouch!!!!!Set off with my walking partner who also happens to be my lovely wife, which is handy. Arrived and started our approach across the Bogland ,soft under foot but no disasters. Errigal had […]
I’ve been looking for a solution to replace my Berghaus Down Vest for quite some time. While the vest is an excellent piece of kit, I thought its warmth to weight ratio could be bettered and since it’s lacking arms and hood I still tended to feel cold when I was wearing it. My original […]
The NI-Wild Christmas Dinner is an annual affair well worth looking forward to. A full turkey dinner with all the trimmings prepared over an open fire with lots of mulled wine and followed by an evening filled with war stories of peaks conquered, rivers run and weather suffered. Dwarfs would sing songs of the weight […]
So I have had the Jetboil Flash for a few weeks now and although I’ve not had it out as much as I’d like, a proper review seems overdue. I’ll not rehash the basics which you can read in the pre-review here, I’ll just talk about my actual experiences. It’s fair to say that as […]
With so much new gear kicking around the house but my weekends filled with duties I threw caution to the wind and took a midweek camp. Initially I didn’t have much of a plan in mind just wanting a bivvy somewhere preferring a peak in the Mournes as it had been a while since my […]
